[6] döglingr er æfr ‘the ruler is violent’: Both Skj B and Skald emend this line to make it pl., viz. æfir eru dǫglingar ‘the rulers are violent’, but there is no ms. justification for this change. In fact, the sg. number here parallels the sg. number in the following stanza, HjǪ 21/7, which refers to Hjálmþér as a stafnbúi ‘forecastle-man’; the döglingr ‘ruler’ mentioned here is presumably Ǫlvir.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Internal references
- Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 21 (Hergunnr, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 514.